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Right there in the resources my teachers talk about a group of librarians the American Library Association. Every year they work hard to look for some of the best books in the world. All these librarians know what they are doing and they pick books that are REALLY special.
There are the winners and honor books for the:
Newberry Medal-awarded each year by the American Library Association for the best American children's book published the previous year.
Caldecott Medal-There once was a famous English illustrator named Randolph Caldecott. They give this medal to the artist who illustrates the best American picture book for kids.
Pura Belpré Medal-This one goes to the writer and illustrator who best shows and celebrates Latino culture in a book for children.
Coretta Scott King Award-awarded to outstanding books for young adults and children by African American authors and illustrators that reflect the African American experience.
I know about the medals because in June I got to go to Washington D.C. with my family. My Dad got the Pura Belpré medal for a story he painted called Book Fiesta that a really great writer named Pat Mora wrote. We have the medal at our home and it is shiny and heavy. I want to show it to you so you know what it looks like. I got to go to lots of museums and see the Washington monument. The very best part was that I got lots of books from amazing writers and artists who were there and got to bring them home to my house!
I decided this would be a great way to start deciding what some of the best books for my school would be. My idea is to make a list and then make a poster and put it up at my school. I hope that some of the parents and grandparents and friends might adopt a book for our school and I will work hard to get them all so kids can read them while we grow our library.
The Newbery Medal is awarded annually by the American Library Association for the most distinguished American children's book published the previous year.
2010 Medal Winner: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books)
2009 Medal Winner: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, illus. by Dave McKean (HarperCollins)
2008 Medal Winner: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz (Candlewick)
2007 Medal Winner: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron, illus. by Matt Phelan (Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson)
2006 Medal Winner: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins)
2005 Medal Winner: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)
2004 Medal Winner: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering, (Candlewick Press)
2003 Medal Winner: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi (Hyperion Books for Children)
2002 Medal Winner: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)
2001 Medal Winner: A Year Down Yonder by by Richard Peck (Dial)
2000 Medal Winner: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)
1999 Medal Winner: Holes by Louis Sachar (Frances Foster)
1998 Medal Winner: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (Scholastic)
1997 Medal Winner: The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg (Jean Karl/Atheneum)
1996 Medal Winner: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman (Clarion)
1995 Medal Winner: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (HarperCollins)
1994 Medal Winner: The Giver by Lois Lowry (Houghton)
1993 Medal Winner: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant (Jackson/Orchard)
1992 Medal Winner: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Atheneum)
1991 Medal Winner: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (Little, Brown)
1990 Medal Winner: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (Houghton)
1989 Medal Winner: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman (Harper)
1988 Medal Winner: Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman (Clarion)
1987 Medal Winner: The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman (Greenwillow)
1986 Medal Winner: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (Harper)
1985 Medal Winner: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley (Greenwillow)
1984 Medal Winner: Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)
1983 Medal Winner: Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt (Atheneum)
1982 Medal Winner: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard (Harcourt)
1981 Medal Winner: Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)
1980 Medal Winner: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos (Scribner)
1979 Medal Winner: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (Dutton)
1978 Medal Winner: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)
1977 Medal Winner: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (Dial)
1976 Medal Winner: The Grey King by Susan Cooper (McElderry/Atheneum)
1975 Medal Winner: M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton (Macmillan)
This medal is to be given to the artist who had created the most distinguished picture book of the year and named in honor of the nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph J. Caldecott.
2010: The Lion & the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney (Little, Brown and Company)
2009: The House in the Night illustrated by Beth Krommes, written by Susan Marie Swanson (Houghton Mifflin Company)
2008: The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic)
2007: Flotsam by David Wiesner (Clarion)
2006: The Hello, Goodbye Window Illustrated by Chris Raschka, written by Norton Juster (Michael di Capua/Hyperion)
2005: Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollinsPublishers)
2004: The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein (Roaring Brook Press/Millbrook Press)
2003: My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann (Roaring Brook Press/Millbrook Press)
2002: The Three Pigs by David Wiesner (Clarion/Houghton Mifflin)
2001: So You Want to Be President? Illustrated by David Small; text by Judith St. George (Philomel Books)
2000: Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback (Viking)
1999: Snowflake Bentley, Illustrated by Mary Azarian; text by Jacqueline Briggs Martin (Houghton)
1998: Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky (Dutton)
1997: Golem by David Wisniewski (Clarion)
1996: Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann (Putnam)
1995: Smoky Night , illustrated by David Diaz; text: Eve Bunting (Harcourt)
1994: Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say; text: edited by Walter Lorraine (Houghton)
1993: Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully (Putnam)
1992: Tuesday by David Wiesner (Clarion Books)
1991: Black and White by David Macaulay (Houghton)
1990: Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young (Philomel)
1989: Song and Dance Man , illustrated by Stephen Gammell; text: Karen Ackerman (Knopf)
1988: Owl Moon , illustrated by John Schoenherr; text: Jane Yolen (Philomel)
1987: Hey, Al , illustrated by Richard Egielski; text: Arthur Yorinks (Farrar)
1986: The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton)
1985: Saint George and the Dragon , illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman; text: retold by Margaret Hodges (Little, Brown)
1984: The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot by Alice & Martin Provensen (Viking)
1983: Shadow , translated and illustrated by Marcia Brown; original text in French: Blaise Cendrars (Scribner)
1982: Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton)
1981: Fables by Arnold Lobel (Harper)
1980: Ox-Cart Man , illustrated by Barbara Cooney; text: Donald Hall (Viking)
1979: The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble (Bradbury)
1978: Noah's Ark by Peter Spier (Doubleday)
1977: Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions , illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon; text: Margaret Musgrove (Dial)
1976: Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears , illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon; text: retold by Verna Aardema (Dial)
1975: Arrow to the Sun by Gerald McDermott (Viking)
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